{"id":10191,"date":"2021-03-20T11:34:28","date_gmt":"2021-03-20T11:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pickmyreader.com\/?p=10191"},"modified":"2021-03-21T06:27:06","modified_gmt":"2021-03-21T06:27:06","slug":"what-does-kindle-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pickmyreader.com\/what-does-kindle-mean\/","title":{"rendered":"What Does Kindle Mean"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amazon admits to selling \u201ctens of millions\u201d of their enduringly popular Kindle devices since the e-reader changed the way we read back in 2007.<\/span><\/p>\n

What does Kindle mean, though?<\/span><\/p>\n

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Naming of Amazon Kindle<\/b><\/h2>\n

Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO (now <\/span>executive chairman<\/span><\/a>) of Amazon wanted to beat competitors to the punch by launching the world\u2019s best e-reader.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2004, Amazon employees were tasked with transforming the device, codenamed Fiona, into a reality.<\/span><\/p>\n

The name Kindle was conjured up by husband and wife team Michael Cronan and Karin Hibma of Cronan branding consultants. When <\/span>Lab126<\/span><\/a> \u2013 Amazon\u2019s R&D wing \u2013 asked Cronan to name the forthcoming e-reader in 2007, Cronan wanted to create a name suggesting humility and starting something new, just like kindling a fire. The metaphor was intended to encapsulate intellectual excitement, according to Cronan.<\/span><\/p>\n

With the name in place, it was time to unleash Kindle on the world.<\/span><\/p>\n

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First Generation of Kindle<\/b><\/h2>\n

The <\/span>original iteration of Amazon Kindle<\/span><\/a> was launched on November 19, 2007. Retailing at $399, the device sold out in less than 6 hours. Astonishingly, the e-reader then remained out of stock until the end of April the following year.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kindle packed a 6-inch grayscale E Ink display. With 250MB of internal storage, the device had room for around 200 titles. Storage could be expanded via SD card. Kindle came with a speaker and a headphone jack to promote listening to audio files. Users could access Amazon content using Sprint\u2019s 3G data network. <\/span>Whispernet<\/span><\/a>, a dedicated protocol, was created for the purpose.<\/span><\/p>\n

The original Amazon Kindle was not sold outside of the U.S.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Second Generation of Kindle<\/b><\/h2>\n

Amazon announced the launch of <\/span>Kindle 2<\/span><\/a> on February 10, 2009. The device came to market on February 23.<\/span><\/p>\n

Memory was ramped up to 2GB internally. Unlike original Kindle, though, there was no capacity for SD card storage.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A text-to-speech option allowed for text to be read aloud.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kindle 2 was physically slimmer than the first iteration<\/span><\/p>\n

As a promotional effort, Stephen King released his new novella, Ur, exclusively through Kindle Store.<\/span><\/p>\n

Later that year, Amazon announced an <\/span>international version of Kindle 2<\/span><\/a>. This came with the ability to download books wirelessly. Launched on October 19, 2009, this international Kindle 2 was released in more than 100 countries worldwide. This model was the same as the standard Kindle 2, except for using alternative mobile network standards. Where Kindle 2 used the Sprint network, the international device used either GSM or 3G GSM.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the decade since these early days of Kindle, the original device has gone through ten generations, and Amazon bolstered the range with many other e-readers, as well as a range of <\/span>Fire tablets<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

How does the line of Kindles shape up in 2021, then?<\/span><\/p>\n

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Kindle 2021 Range<\/b><\/h2>\n

There are currently 4 different models of Kindle:<\/span><\/p>\n